The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
THE RoTHscHILp CASE.
A Darien Merchant Charged With
Passing Counterfeit Money.

A Darien Merchant Charged With
Passing Counterfeit Money.
Charles Rothschild, of Darien, was before
United States Commissioner Wade yester-
day ON warrant charging him with pass
ing counterfeit money. Mr.. Rothschild, who
is well-known merchant of Darien, was
arrested last week on a warrant issued upon
the affidavit OF I. +. Dowdy. a timber cut
ter in Telfair county, who stated that
In August year ago Roths-
child gave him three counterfeit
silver dollars in change for s. bill. The
pieces appeared to be all right when he got
them, but in few hours they turned black.
Dowdy went back to Telfair county and the
next day lost the money while fishing.
In his testimony before the Commissioner
Dowdy was considerably mixed. He stated
that he had never demanded of Mr.. Roths
child that he make good the bad money, and
the reason that he had not entered
prosecution before was that he didn't
know anything about law, and
until he was told by Deputy Marsha!
Harris he didn't even know that he could
enter prosecution at all. Several months
after he claimed to have received the coun-
terfeit money he went back to Mr.. Roths-
child and showed him another dollar and
asked him if it was good money. Mr.. Roths-
child told him that he didn't know whether
it was or not Dowdy then grabbed Mr..
Rothschild and struck him with an augur.
He was drunk at the time and was arrested
and lodged in Jail, but the prosecution was
afterward dropped and he was released.
W. A. Burkett and John johnson, who
were with Dowdy in Darien. testified that
Rothschild tried to get one of them to get
the dollar that Dowdy showed him, and if
they would he would make it right with
them, and would get Dowdy out of jail. 1t
was also claimed that Rotchschild passed
eleven counterfeit dollars on William Ray,
of Darien, and johnson stated that he saw
one of the dollars and that it turned black
and looked like lead.
The defendant was represented at the ex-
animation by Solicitor General duBignon,
who introduced evidence to show that Mr..
Rothschild is man of integrity and of
established business reputation. Messrs.
Meinhard, NJ Ferst, J. D. Weed and Lee Roy
Myers of this city, and Mr.. c. E. DobSon,
farmer of Telfair county. were put on the
stand and swore that the defendants
dealings with them for the past fifteen
years have been satisfactory, and that so
far as they knew he is a man of strict in
tegrity. G. H. Hopkins, Jr., Marshal of
DaTIen, who arrested Dowdy, was also put
up by the defense. He stated that Mr..
Rothschild withdrew the prosecution against
Dowdy at his request The defendant testi-
fed that he did not know powdy; that
he did not give him any money as
Dowdy claims, and that he did not pay the
costs of his prosecution and only withdrew
it at the solicitation of Mr. Hopkins.
Mr.. du3Ignon made strong argument
and submitted the case on the ground that
there was nothing in the testimony of the
governments witnesses from which the de-
PENDANTS guilt could even be suspected
William Ray is one of the witnesses in the
case, but was not present yesterday. The
Commissioner desires to hear his testimony
and continued the case until tomorrow
morning